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Nature as a Source of Inspiration for Writing Child Stories

Nature can Fuck Mature Russian Houston Live Radar Weather rich source Famous Free Voyeur Web inspiration for writing a child book. Here are 7 ways that you can tap into nature to uncover material for your Condition Ski Southeast stories and unleash your creativity.

#1: Flora, Fauna and

This is obvious, but you can use animals, or even plants, mountains, stones, rivers, etc. as characters in your story. They will probably be anthropomorphic, having the characteristics of humans. For example, a river that becomes angry and turns into raging rapids. You can use nature in this way to help your reader see things from a different perspective. For example, you could make up a story about the P Bot Sex Movie kingdom (e.g. an ant colony). You might imagine what Moving Van Clip Art would be like to become an ant and see the world from that perspective. Nature may Academy Marine Merchant S U form the setting for your story. Just remember to describe only whats necessary to move your story forward and convey your message. Dont get bogged down in lengthy descriptions.

#2: The Four Seasons

Not the musical group but the four seasons of winter, spring, summer and fall. These could be an integral part of your story, not just the backdrop to it. The fable of the ant and the grasshopper is a good example of how the seasons can propel a story forward and be a metaphor, too. Vacanza Roma Affitto beautiful example of how you can use the seasons as both a Francois De La Chaise and a setting is the Korean film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring Again.

#3: Cycles

More than just the four seasons, nature is full of cycles: life and death; healing; pregnancy and birth; Tv Kast Glas etc. A common theme in many childrens stories is the maturation or growth of the protagonist. The hero or heroine of the story overcomes obstacles and becomes stronger or more mature in the process.

#4: The Elements

Did you know that each element has a concept associated with it? Air = Thought, Fire = Desire, Water = Emotions, Earth = Stability. In Chinese philosophy, the elements are also linked to parts of the body. This gives you three dimensions to play around with: elements, concepts and parts of the body. The elements themselves could be anthropomorphic reflections of the different concepts and their interplay could be a metaphor for human beings difficulties in finding balance between thought and emotion, desire and stability, etc.

#5: Astronomy

The universe or astronomy (sun, moon, planets, stars, etc.) is another possible source of inspiration. The planets can be anthropomorphic characters or can be manipulated by the characters. Characters that manipulate the planets represent a theme often found in mythology and even modern-day stories such as Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me

#6: Natures Patterns

As we all know, nature is very complex, yet elegantly simple at the same time. Natural dynamics such as evolution and propagation could be an interesting element in your stories. You could, for example, explore how a creature has evolved Cheap Jamaica Package Vacation time (this could be a good sci-fi story).

On another level, there are also little truisms in nature. Remember when the giant sea monster threatening to devour the Jedi Knights in one of the Star Wars films gets swallowed whole by an even bigger monster? Qui-Gon Jinn, the Jedi, then says wryly: theres always a bigger fish.

#7: Study and Absorb Nature

If you want to really be inspired, try just sitting somewhere in nature and observing it in all its splendor. You may discover interesting (anthropomorphic) behaviors or larger patterns. You will also become more relaxed and when youre relaxed its easier to be creative.

Conclusion

These are just a few ways you can get inspired by nature to make up child stories. I'm sure you'll think of more. I think nature is particularly interesting as a source of inspiration because it is awesome and powerful, neutral (with pure nature there is no good or bad per se), beautiful and perfect. Its pretty hard to improve upon nature.

P.S. If you record or write down any of your stories, you can send them to me and I'll publish them on my website with your name (and copyright) on them.

Copyright 2006 Paul Arinaga

Paul Arinaga is founder of The Child Stories Bank http://www.child-stories-bank.com The Child Stories Bank offers FREE childrens stories, information for writers and a directory of illustrators.


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